Well now, this really sucks. Four college best friends meet every year at Big Sur for a week end of drugs and rock and roll (no sex, unfortunately) and this weekend things go South in a hurry in a flurry of pills, coke and male menopause spoiler alert till they all commit suicide.
Jeremy Peven is a uxorious family man who has been stealing his clients money, Rob Lowe a doctor who has morphed into a drug dispenser, Christian McKay a gay loser who killed his sister and boyfriend in a car crash and Thomas Jane a failed novelist. Watching them self-destruct isn't much fun, except a party scene which is much fun till it isn't.
As an examination of male bonding or male angst it beggars the imagination, and while I should have probably disliked it more, it has a sort of visceral power and I enjoyed the mens affection for each other, I didn't really enjoy it.
The music is excellent, late 1970s, early 1980s hard rock and features a clip of Johnny Rotten calling rock and roll dead and music fans animals, to Tom Snyder on the "Tomorrow" show. The Clash and The Stone Roses are represented and they dance to Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" during the party scene. Jeremy Peven quotes the Pretenders "Talk Of The Town" just before he dies.
Movie: B
Music: A